John Keats on experience
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.”
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
John KeatsJohn Keats Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
John KeatsJohn Keats Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsJohn Keats Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
John KeatsJohn Keats Death is Life’s high meed.
John KeatsJohn Keats Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
John KeatsJohn Keats You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
John KeatsJohn Keats I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
John KeatsJohn Keats Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
John KeatsJohn Keats Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
John KeatsJohn Keats Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
John KeatsJohn Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John KeatsJohn Keats Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
John KeatsJohn Keats Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John KeatsJohn Keats That queen of secrecy, the violet.
John KeatsJohn Keats Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield The hardest part of living is experiencing death without dying.
Haley Ann WardHaley Ann Ward It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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EmpedoclesEmpedocles I have experience seducing nephews.
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